The Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, popularly known as Estádio do Morumbi, and currently known as MorumBIS because of the sponsorship with the Lacta chocolate brand BIS, is a football stadium located in the eponymous district in São Paulo, Brazil. It is the home of São Paulo FC and its formal name honors Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, who was São Paulo Futebol Clube's chairman during most of the stadium construction and died before its inauguration. Morumbi is the largest privately owned stadium in Brazil. The stadium was designed by the architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas.
Wanessa Godói Camargo is a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
Luiza Possi Gadelha is a Brazilian pop singer. She is the daughter of another famous Brazilian singer, Zizi Possi.
Andre Coelho Matos was a Brazilian singer and musician. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia. Since 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time to his solo career. In 2012, he was ranked No. 77 at the list of 100 Greatest Voices of Brazilian Music by Rolling Stone Brasil.
Moacyr Jaime Scliar was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil.
Titãs are a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. Though they primarily play pop/alternative rock, their music has touched a number of other styles throughout their 40-year career, such as new wave, punk rock, grunge, MPB and electronic music.
Arílson de Paula Nunes, better known as Paulo Nunes, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer who played as a forward.
Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and screenwriter.
Sidney Taurel is a Spanish-born American businessman. He is the chairman of Pearson plc and chairman emeritus of Eli Lilly and Company, where he had a 37-year career and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2008. He became chairman of Pearson in January 2016. He is currently a director of IBM and advises Almirall S.A. on corporate strategy.
Norton Nascimento was a Brazilian actor.
Alex Veley is an American rock musician, soul keyboardist and singer.
Banda Calypso was a Brazilian brega pop band, with influences of regional rhythms of the state of Pará. The band was formed in Belém, the state capital, in 1999 by singer/dancer Joelma da Silva Mendes and guitarist/producer Cledivan Almeida Farias, better known as Mestre Ximbinha. Early exposure of their work was restricted to only the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. The band now enjoys success throughout Brazil and has begun to establish its career abroad with tours to the United States, Europe and Angola.
Paulo Szot is a Brazilian operatic baritone singer and actor. He made his opera debut in 1997 and his international career has included performances with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala di Milano, Opera de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Australia, Liceo de Barcelona, among many others. In 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Emile De Becque in a revival of South Pacific, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Theatre World Award. In 2012 he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a musical, and in 2014 was nominated for the MAC Award for best Celebrity Artist becoming the first Brazilian to receive such honors. His other stage credits include portraying the role of Juan Perón in the Sydney Opera House production of Evita, starring as Billy Flynn in the 2020/2021 cast of Broadway’s Chicago, and originating the role of Lance in the hit Broadway musical & Juliet.
The Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet (QGQ) is a classical guitar ensemble from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1992. The Quartet has become a reference both for its artistic excellence and for its contributions to the expansion of the guitar quartet repertoire. Quaternaglia has developed a canon of original pieces and arrangements with the collaboration of a variety of composers such as Egberto Gismonti, Leo Brouwer, Javier Farías, Sérgio Molina, Almeida Prado, Sergio Assad, João Luiz, Paulo Bellinati and Marco Pereira Quaternaglia’s current members are Sidney Molina, Thiago Abdalla, Fabio Ramazzina and Chrystian Dozza.
Braz Roberto da Costa, known professionally as Braz da Viola, is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist musician, luthier, conductor and teacher. He runs workshops of viola caipira in several cities in Brazil. He played with several guitar players in Brazil, such as Roberto Corrêa, Paulo Freire, Renato Andrade, Pereira da Viola, Ivan Vilela and dual Zé Mulato and Cassiano. He worked with Inezita Barroso, when the singer appeared accompanied by the Orquestra de Viola Caipira de São José dos Campos.
Deise Rosa de Almeida is a Brazilian Christian singer and songwriter.
Luciana de Andrade is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress. In 2002 she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge, recording two of the four studio albums, Rouge (2002) and C'est La Vie (2003). With over 6 million records sold, the Rouge are the best-selling Brazilian female group of all time. In 2004 she left the band citing exhaustion and creative differences, but rejoined when they reunited for a fifth studio album, Les 5inq (2019) and concert tour: 15 Anos Tour (2018).
Marcos Robson Cipriano, simply known as Marquinhos Cipriano, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Sion as a left-back.
Fantine Rodrigues Thó is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer and instructor. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world. In 2006 formed the progressive rock band Banda Thó with his brother Jonathan and some friends, which did not give continuity at the end of the following year, when married and moved to Netherlands.
